At noon today, this interchange between my housemate and myself:

Him: Last night I filled up my car with gas: $40 at a gas station I had never been to before. But then, when I looked for it on my bank account later, the transaction did not appear.

Me: Uh oh! So the question is, do you tell them what happened?

Him: Or: the question is: do I keep going there to get my gas?

We batted his dilemma around some more. This is not our first time for this conversation. I told him about a dilemma I faced two days ago: the sweet potato that, after I finally got to the Aldi clerk, having stayed in line for at least ten minutes, I had forgotten to place on the counter with the rest of my purchases.

I thought to myself. “Do I just walk out of here without paying for this potato? After all, it’s probably only worth about $1.50.” But I couldn’t. My integrity was at stake, even with this small purchase from a large corporation. I got back in line.

I bet he did too. Adam is like that. One of those in his (and my) long fading generation who still, no matter what, value truth, honesty, integrity, over “getting away with it.”

I mention this story because I’m currently wondering whether or not to pursue an interesting (but dreadful) lead that I came across on social media (can’t remember where: Telegram or Twitter?). It’s a video that seems to condemn Ron DeSantis, a political figure who many people feel is a rare bright light on the national scene. I’ve wondered about him for awhile now, so was moved to watch the video.

Afterwards, I sent the video to an astute friend, and she said her intuition had not been trusting him, and that a friend of hers who had just visited Florida, thinking of moving there, told her that even though the people there were great, it’s a lot farther along with Agenda 21/30 than most states, with surveillance everywhere. And, my friend noted noted, her friend’s opinion tracked with her sense “of luring a bunch of patriots all in one place in order to eliminate or imprison them.”

Shudder . . .

So I did a quick search — “DeSantis Guantanamo” — and found this (see below). Have skimmed it but not pursued it yet, and don’t know if I will. In any case, stay awake, folks. And keep your own personal integrity intact, so that no matter what happens “out there” in the larger world, you know that, each and every second, were you to die now, your life would be complete.

And, let me add: it’s our unquenchable, and incontrovertible integrity that, if magnified by enough people doing/thinking/being the same, that can and will shift the frequency of our troubled world out of depression and despair into a new beginning.